There's not a whole lot of point in constant downloading of new apps. I use apps a LOT, but the number of apps used just isn't that high.
Aside from the obvious built in Gmail/Calendar/Calculator/Google Music type stuff that's already built in, I've got maybe 2 dozen apps that I use regularly. Unless I have a specific need I'm not going to be looking around for new ones, and for the most part that two dozen has been mostly stable for at least 2 years now.
i know we're supposed to be good consumers and keep ravenously looking around for "NEW STUFF!?!?!", but I just don't see the point.
But quick takedowns for relatively unpopular videos(sextape of a non-famous woman in italy) will tend to essentially erase them from internet memory.
I think you'll find that simply doesn't work. People like what's forbidden. A quick takedown of a relatively unpopular video will suddenly make it QUITE a popular video. As a matter of fact since this woman's suicide I'd bet the number of people that have seen this video has tripled.
The easiest way to ensure people want something is to tell them they can't have it, and on the internet people wanting something means it gets shared everywhere.
Name any major film for which DMCA takedown notices go out by the bucketload and I'll bet you half a meatball sandwich that it's over on The Pirate Bay waiting for download.
Such measures of limited sucess. If the motive is financial, there might be some benefit. If you can "crackdown on piracy" and manage to eliminate enough bad copies to boost legitimate sales by some percentage, then your actions are considered successful - to a degree.
However when the goal isn't financial, and instead is just to remove all traces of a piece of information from the internet - it can't be done. Thousands of people now have that file on their hard drive. Its being shared on torrent networks. Links are posted to obscure forums spreading it further.
I don't care how much you yell, scream, or pass feel good laws, you can't unscramble an egg.
They might as well create a right for the murdered to be "Restored to life" while we're legislation impossible acts.
Realistically - information isn't going to be removed from the internet. It's like playing the world's worst game of whack-a-mole.
I do have sympathy for most victims of leaked nudes photos or video - this one is a tad hard to feel bad for because she intentionally sent it to an ex she was on bad terms with. Generally though - that's a bit of an exception to the rule.
That said, despite it being wrong. Despite the fact that it SHOULDN'T happen - if you film yourself nude or in a sexual act, there is a very real possibility that that file could end up on the internet. Could be that you shared it with someone and they reshare it, or it could be an unauthorized hack, however the simple reality is that though that information ethically should remain private, realistically it might not.
To me, if you can't accept a small risk that whatever you film just MIGHT be seen by the world, then I wouldn't recommend filming it in the first place. It's akin to an old gambling rule: No matter the odds, never place a bet you can't afford to lose.
Battery life isn't the be all and end all browser test. For me - on mutliple systems - Edge just stalls and stops randomly at the most annoying times - even if I've only got 2 or 3 tabs open. Chrome pretty much never does this.
What good is extra battery life if I spend 20-50% more time in the browser waiting on it to do something?
Because realistically most people are pretty dumb when it comes to using a computer. Autorun is a thing because otherwise more than half of computer users would never be able to launch a program.
That's why we have consistent UI's getting thrown out of the window and now most app developers are basically going with the approach of "throw everything randomly up in their face and hopefully they'll see a button that does what they want". Makes it easier for the average idiot to stumble upon what they want - makes it a lot harder for someone to navigate a program expecting it to work like most other programs do.
I had kinda thought all this would improve as the older generation faded away and most younger people literally grew up using computers, but truthfully the younger generation is no better. They're no longer AFRAID of using a computer/phone/whatever, but they're certainly not any BETTER at it.
Such a statement is useless conjecture without observing the natural progression of such a race and then drawing a conclusion. You might as well say "A race that advanced has OBVIOUSLY replaced all their limbs with broccoli.".
Science is based on observations. Fiction is based on wild speculation. Combining the two makes for some interesting stories, but remember that science fiction is a type of fiction, and not a type of science.
While true, by that definition unlimited has no real meaning, because it's never possible. The speed is ALWAYS limited. Whether it's 128Kbps or the physical capability of the network, there is always a maximum speed and hence some maximum amount of data that could be transferred if you went at that speed constantly.
Personally, I don't have any issue with this. My main fear when it comes to buying a data plan is simply that I'll accidentally transfer too much and get an outrageous bill. Now if I happen to run out, I can still transfer data - albeit slowly. More importantly though, I can buy a data plan that's actually pretty close to what I use rather than buying one with 3-4GB of "padding" to make absolutely sure I never run over.
Actually if you would watch any of the video complaints like those by Phil Defranco, he went out of his way to assure people of the opposite. He specifically mentions that Youtube is a private company and that it's within their legal right to do this. HOWEVER, as users of the platform we are also free to voice our disapproval.
Personally, nearly half of the Youtube channels that I view regularly would be considered "non-advertiser" friendly - and most of them pull in very good viewership #'s. If Youtube pushes them off the platform, they'll push me off the platform too. Now naturally they don't care about *ME* as a single viewer, but given how popular most of these guys are as a group their viewers represent a very large number of people.
Too many people seem to be of the opinion "Well, it's not a legal violation of the 1st amendment, so you lot just need to shut up about the issue and accept whatever a private company does without question.".
I can personally say that until something gives I've personally already pulled my Youtube Red subscription.
Um, nearly every person carrying a gun carries one in the chamber - including pretty much all cops (I avoid saying "all" because I know there's probably that ONE guy out there that makes "All" incorrect, but it's damned nearly "all").
If you need to use the gun you don't want to be fumbling around trying to rack the slide. A good quality holster the covers the trigger guard is the most important recipe in carrying a gun safely. Leaving the chamber empty is just stupid.
Stand your ground has little to do with trespassing.
Stand your ground is simply a legal alternative to the concept of "duty to retreat". Basically in a "duty to retreat" situation if your life is threatened you are legally required to leave the area, and if followed leave that area, and so on until you can no longer leave the area.
In a "stand your ground" jurisdiction, any place where you have the legal right to be, you don't have to ever leave. If your safety is threatened you can legally defend yourself without having to retreat.
In MOST jurisdictions though (even SYG ones), a trespasser just being on open property would not legally constitute a threat to your safety. They have to be actively either attacking you, have a weapon obviously at their disposal, or otherwise making credible threats.
In a castle doctrine state though, if they actually enter your RESIDENCE (not simply property), then their mere presence is considered to be a threat to your safety and in general you are free to defend yourself with deadly force. Or more simply - you enter someone's home uninvited and they can legally shoot you.
Even that though has not provided protection in the most obvious of abuse (ie, walking up and shooting someone point-blank execution style after they've already been shot and disabled, or "baiting" someone in by leaving a door open with valuables clearly visible to entice them to enter).
Yeah - I had a neighbor who died at 98 and was still not only living on his own but DRIVING. As a matter of fact that's how he died. He was getting out of the truck to check his mail and didn't have it in park - ended up accidentally running himself over. Now, that incident itself probably proves he SHOULDN'T have been driving, but he was certainly in good spirits, independent, and was mentally sound all the way up to the end.
Granted, if this story is true (big IF), he was still 47 years younger than this guy, but you can still live a productive live well up into old age.
I sincerely doubt I'll make it that long though. On my mother's side both of my grandparents died in their mid 50's. On my dad's side both in their early 70's.
It's true that really - it doesn't matter. On a geologic timescale, everything we do is happening quickly.
Regardless of how many electric vehicles we put on the road, or how much fuel efficiency we push, every, single, last, drop of gasoline on this planet will be burned in the next ~1000 years. On a geologic timescale whether we burn it all in 50 years or in 1000 it really isn't going to matter.
So basically, we just cross our fingers and hope that by the time we dump all the available CO2 into the atomosphere that's it's not borked to the point that the planet won't recover.
Truly - the only solution we're going to have to global warming is to hope that eventually we just run out of fossil fuels and clean energy is all that's left.
Honestly, yes. KDE was the first desktop environment I tried when I started dabbling around in Linux back in the late 90's. I continued to use KDE for several years into the 3.0 series because compared to Gnome it just felt more polished and capable. As a matter of fact I remember at some point one of the big Linux groups (may have been a branch of Red Hat) announced that they'd be adopting Gnome as their "official" platform and I immediately though "Well, that's the end of Linux as a desktop option, because Gnome sucks.".
Somewhere along the way though KDE did indeed stagnate, and Gnome and even XFCE started to feel just a little more put together. Eventually Gnome went a little off the rails too but thankfully Mint forked off Cinnamon and it is wonderful IMHO (though I did successfully use XFCE for a bit while Cinnamon was still stabilizing). I still will download and boot into some of the other DE's like KDE every now and then, but none of them feel right. Cinnamon on the other hand has manged to keep pace with technology and looks like not trying to upend the entire UI paradigm.
Unless it changes drastically though, I no longer have any interest in KDE - and my interest in Gnome is limited only to backporting the useful bits into Cinnamon.
Without a time machine we could go back and forth on this, but I'm quite confident that in a decade or so I'll be proven right on this, and you'll be about like the Cliff Stroll who in 1995 was writing about how the internet and online shopping would never take off:
Some sort of autonomous Segway device or drone might come to the restaurant to pick up the food? It's a longer way off than driverless taxis.
Why would you think that? The "self driving" bit is the hard part. Once that's good to go adding in an electric box that opens and closes when provided a code (one for the restaurant to open with, one for a person to open to retrieve food) would be absolutely trivial.
The technology is already too far along to think it won't work.
It won't just happen - consumer-ready self-driving cars will be completely ready and commonly sold within 10 years and the technology will be damned near perfect in 20 years.
I'd wager that once Uber goes this route it won't be doing it with individuals providing their own car. It'll be a big fleet of cars owned by Uber that they rent out. That eliminates the need to share revenue with anyone else, and over the long haul the price of the car to them won't really be that big of a deal.
Why should they bother? They've got this golden goose that makes them boat loads of cash and they have to do literally nothing to rake it all in. Have you ever looked at the failed abortion that is Greenlight? They don't give even the tiniest fuck that it's filled to the brim with absolute shit and that the shit is leaking into the main catalog.
Yeah - I gotta admit there have been MANY times I've longed for a search filter that would either filter OUT "Indie Games" or filter to ONLY "AAA Titles".
I have no problem with indie games being out there. I understand many people like them and that's great - I just would like to be able to narrow down my shopping experience to keep things focused on the types of games I want to play.
It's not optimal but really it ain't terrible either. I have 50Mbps cable at my house, but I go over to my parents at least every other weekend and they live further out - 3Mbps DSL is the best available in their area (I'm surprised they even have that available).
Honestly - if I were to download a file, it obviously goes a lot slower, but as far as just browsing the web and even watching Youtube videos on their Roku: The difference isn't even noticeable vs my connection at home.
Whether you want to call it "broadband" or not, DSL is still a perfectly functional and usable Internet connection (unlike dial-up where just browsing the web is slow to the point of being unusable).
Why does that have to have a special name though? Plotting to kill someone - regardless of motive - should be illegal. Conspiracy to Murder or thereabouts (the exact charge name may vary by locale/jurisdiction).
Anything that should be a "hate crime" should also just be a regular crime with existing laws against it or it shouldn't be a crime at all. A "hate crime" is always either redundant or an unjust charge.
The number of people who care about the stuff you listed is generally trivial, and your statement itself touches on a key point - "market opportunity". If you want anything more than a hobbyist project (of which there are tons out there already), you have to have a product that will make money.
Browsers can either make money by doing things like the data gathering you mention (and be of no cost to the users), or they can skip on things like that and charge the user directly. You seem to want the latter.
With monetarily free options available I don't think there's enough demand for a paid browser to actually fund it. By all means though if you thing it can happen, then feel free to start up such a project and see if it has wings.
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There's not a whole lot of point in constant downloading of new apps. I use apps a LOT, but the number of apps used just isn't that high.
Aside from the obvious built in Gmail/Calendar/Calculator/Google Music type stuff that's already built in, I've got maybe 2 dozen apps that I use regularly. Unless I have a specific need I'm not going to be looking around for new ones, and for the most part that two dozen has been mostly stable for at least 2 years now.
i know we're supposed to be good consumers and keep ravenously looking around for "NEW STUFF!?!?!", but I just don't see the point.
But quick takedowns for relatively unpopular videos(sextape of a non-famous woman in italy) will tend to essentially erase them from internet memory.
I think you'll find that simply doesn't work. People like what's forbidden. A quick takedown of a relatively unpopular video will suddenly make it QUITE a popular video. As a matter of fact since this woman's suicide I'd bet the number of people that have seen this video has tripled.
The easiest way to ensure people want something is to tell them they can't have it, and on the internet people wanting something means it gets shared everywhere.
Name any major film for which DMCA takedown notices go out by the bucketload and I'll bet you half a meatball sandwich that it's over on The Pirate Bay waiting for download.
Such measures of limited sucess. If the motive is financial, there might be some benefit. If you can "crackdown on piracy" and manage to eliminate enough bad copies to boost legitimate sales by some percentage, then your actions are considered successful - to a degree.
However when the goal isn't financial, and instead is just to remove all traces of a piece of information from the internet - it can't be done. Thousands of people now have that file on their hard drive. Its being shared on torrent networks. Links are posted to obscure forums spreading it further.
I don't care how much you yell, scream, or pass feel good laws, you can't unscramble an egg.
They might as well create a right for the murdered to be "Restored to life" while we're legislation impossible acts.
Realistically - information isn't going to be removed from the internet. It's like playing the world's worst game of whack-a-mole.
I do have sympathy for most victims of leaked nudes photos or video - this one is a tad hard to feel bad for because she intentionally sent it to an ex she was on bad terms with. Generally though - that's a bit of an exception to the rule.
That said, despite it being wrong. Despite the fact that it SHOULDN'T happen - if you film yourself nude or in a sexual act, there is a very real possibility that that file could end up on the internet. Could be that you shared it with someone and they reshare it, or it could be an unauthorized hack, however the simple reality is that though that information ethically should remain private, realistically it might not.
To me, if you can't accept a small risk that whatever you film just MIGHT be seen by the world, then I wouldn't recommend filming it in the first place. It's akin to an old gambling rule: No matter the odds, never place a bet you can't afford to lose.
Battery life isn't the be all and end all browser test. For me - on mutliple systems - Edge just stalls and stops randomly at the most annoying times - even if I've only got 2 or 3 tabs open. Chrome pretty much never does this.
What good is extra battery life if I spend 20-50% more time in the browser waiting on it to do something?
Because realistically most people are pretty dumb when it comes to using a computer. Autorun is a thing because otherwise more than half of computer users would never be able to launch a program.
That's why we have consistent UI's getting thrown out of the window and now most app developers are basically going with the approach of "throw everything randomly up in their face and hopefully they'll see a button that does what they want". Makes it easier for the average idiot to stumble upon what they want - makes it a lot harder for someone to navigate a program expecting it to work like most other programs do.
I had kinda thought all this would improve as the older generation faded away and most younger people literally grew up using computers, but truthfully the younger generation is no better. They're no longer AFRAID of using a computer/phone/whatever, but they're certainly not any BETTER at it.
Such a statement is useless conjecture without observing the natural progression of such a race and then drawing a conclusion. You might as well say "A race that advanced has OBVIOUSLY replaced all their limbs with broccoli.".
Science is based on observations. Fiction is based on wild speculation. Combining the two makes for some interesting stories, but remember that science fiction is a type of fiction, and not a type of science.
While true, by that definition unlimited has no real meaning, because it's never possible. The speed is ALWAYS limited. Whether it's 128Kbps or the physical capability of the network, there is always a maximum speed and hence some maximum amount of data that could be transferred if you went at that speed constantly.
The speed becomes limited, but the amount is not.
Personally, I don't have any issue with this. My main fear when it comes to buying a data plan is simply that I'll accidentally transfer too much and get an outrageous bill. Now if I happen to run out, I can still transfer data - albeit slowly. More importantly though, I can buy a data plan that's actually pretty close to what I use rather than buying one with 3-4GB of "padding" to make absolutely sure I never run over.
Actually if you would watch any of the video complaints like those by Phil Defranco, he went out of his way to assure people of the opposite. He specifically mentions that Youtube is a private company and that it's within their legal right to do this. HOWEVER, as users of the platform we are also free to voice our disapproval.
Personally, nearly half of the Youtube channels that I view regularly would be considered "non-advertiser" friendly - and most of them pull in very good viewership #'s. If Youtube pushes them off the platform, they'll push me off the platform too. Now naturally they don't care about *ME* as a single viewer, but given how popular most of these guys are as a group their viewers represent a very large number of people.
Too many people seem to be of the opinion "Well, it's not a legal violation of the 1st amendment, so you lot just need to shut up about the issue and accept whatever a private company does without question.".
I can personally say that until something gives I've personally already pulled my Youtube Red subscription.
This rocket was brand new it was the first that would have been SCHEDULED TO REUSE later after this launch.
Um, nearly every person carrying a gun carries one in the chamber - including pretty much all cops (I avoid saying "all" because I know there's probably that ONE guy out there that makes "All" incorrect, but it's damned nearly "all").
If you need to use the gun you don't want to be fumbling around trying to rack the slide. A good quality holster the covers the trigger guard is the most important recipe in carrying a gun safely. Leaving the chamber empty is just stupid.
Also hitting a target with a shotgun loaded with birdshot is not as an amazing feat as the article would make it seem.
With a .410 shotgun it is. Compared to your average 12 gauge the pattern on a .410 is pretty darned sparse.
Stand your ground has little to do with trespassing.
Stand your ground is simply a legal alternative to the concept of "duty to retreat". Basically in a "duty to retreat" situation if your life is threatened you are legally required to leave the area, and if followed leave that area, and so on until you can no longer leave the area.
In a "stand your ground" jurisdiction, any place where you have the legal right to be, you don't have to ever leave. If your safety is threatened you can legally defend yourself without having to retreat.
In MOST jurisdictions though (even SYG ones), a trespasser just being on open property would not legally constitute a threat to your safety. They have to be actively either attacking you, have a weapon obviously at their disposal, or otherwise making credible threats.
In a castle doctrine state though, if they actually enter your RESIDENCE (not simply property), then their mere presence is considered to be a threat to your safety and in general you are free to defend yourself with deadly force. Or more simply - you enter someone's home uninvited and they can legally shoot you.
Even that though has not provided protection in the most obvious of abuse (ie, walking up and shooting someone point-blank execution style after they've already been shot and disabled, or "baiting" someone in by leaving a door open with valuables clearly visible to entice them to enter).
Yeah - I had a neighbor who died at 98 and was still not only living on his own but DRIVING. As a matter of fact that's how he died. He was getting out of the truck to check his mail and didn't have it in park - ended up accidentally running himself over. Now, that incident itself probably proves he SHOULDN'T have been driving, but he was certainly in good spirits, independent, and was mentally sound all the way up to the end.
Granted, if this story is true (big IF), he was still 47 years younger than this guy, but you can still live a productive live well up into old age.
I sincerely doubt I'll make it that long though. On my mother's side both of my grandparents died in their mid 50's. On my dad's side both in their early 70's.
It's true that really - it doesn't matter. On a geologic timescale, everything we do is happening quickly.
Regardless of how many electric vehicles we put on the road, or how much fuel efficiency we push, every, single, last, drop of gasoline on this planet will be burned in the next ~1000 years. On a geologic timescale whether we burn it all in 50 years or in 1000 it really isn't going to matter.
So basically, we just cross our fingers and hope that by the time we dump all the available CO2 into the atomosphere that's it's not borked to the point that the planet won't recover.
Truly - the only solution we're going to have to global warming is to hope that eventually we just run out of fossil fuels and clean energy is all that's left.
Honestly, yes. KDE was the first desktop environment I tried when I started dabbling around in Linux back in the late 90's. I continued to use KDE for several years into the 3.0 series because compared to Gnome it just felt more polished and capable. As a matter of fact I remember at some point one of the big Linux groups (may have been a branch of Red Hat) announced that they'd be adopting Gnome as their "official" platform and I immediately though "Well, that's the end of Linux as a desktop option, because Gnome sucks.".
Somewhere along the way though KDE did indeed stagnate, and Gnome and even XFCE started to feel just a little more put together. Eventually Gnome went a little off the rails too but thankfully Mint forked off Cinnamon and it is wonderful IMHO (though I did successfully use XFCE for a bit while Cinnamon was still stabilizing). I still will download and boot into some of the other DE's like KDE every now and then, but none of them feel right. Cinnamon on the other hand has manged to keep pace with technology and looks like not trying to upend the entire UI paradigm.
Unless it changes drastically though, I no longer have any interest in KDE - and my interest in Gnome is limited only to backporting the useful bits into Cinnamon.
Without a time machine we could go back and forth on this, but I'm quite confident that in a decade or so I'll be proven right on this, and you'll be about like the Cliff Stroll who in 1995 was writing about how the internet and online shopping would never take off:
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Some sort of autonomous Segway device or drone might come to the restaurant to pick up the food? It's a longer way off than driverless taxis.
Why would you think that? The "self driving" bit is the hard part. Once that's good to go adding in an electric box that opens and closes when provided a code (one for the restaurant to open with, one for a person to open to retrieve food) would be absolutely trivial.
The technology is already too far along to think it won't work.
It won't just happen - consumer-ready self-driving cars will be completely ready and commonly sold within 10 years and the technology will be damned near perfect in 20 years.
I'd wager that once Uber goes this route it won't be doing it with individuals providing their own car. It'll be a big fleet of cars owned by Uber that they rent out. That eliminates the need to share revenue with anyone else, and over the long haul the price of the car to them won't really be that big of a deal.
Why should they bother? They've got this golden goose that makes them boat loads of cash and they have to do literally nothing to rake it all in. Have you ever looked at the failed abortion that is Greenlight? They don't give even the tiniest fuck that it's filled to the brim with absolute shit and that the shit is leaking into the main catalog.
Yeah - I gotta admit there have been MANY times I've longed for a search filter that would either filter OUT "Indie Games" or filter to ONLY "AAA Titles".
I have no problem with indie games being out there. I understand many people like them and that's great - I just would like to be able to narrow down my shopping experience to keep things focused on the types of games I want to play.
It's not optimal but really it ain't terrible either. I have 50Mbps cable at my house, but I go over to my parents at least every other weekend and they live further out - 3Mbps DSL is the best available in their area (I'm surprised they even have that available).
Honestly - if I were to download a file, it obviously goes a lot slower, but as far as just browsing the web and even watching Youtube videos on their Roku: The difference isn't even noticeable vs my connection at home.
Whether you want to call it "broadband" or not, DSL is still a perfectly functional and usable Internet connection (unlike dial-up where just browsing the web is slow to the point of being unusable).
Why does that have to have a special name though? Plotting to kill someone - regardless of motive - should be illegal. Conspiracy to Murder or thereabouts (the exact charge name may vary by locale/jurisdiction).
Anything that should be a "hate crime" should also just be a regular crime with existing laws against it or it shouldn't be a crime at all. A "hate crime" is always either redundant or an unjust charge.
So there is a fantastic market opportunity
I'd argue that there isn't.
The number of people who care about the stuff you listed is generally trivial, and your statement itself touches on a key point - "market opportunity". If you want anything more than a hobbyist project (of which there are tons out there already), you have to have a product that will make money.
Browsers can either make money by doing things like the data gathering you mention (and be of no cost to the users), or they can skip on things like that and charge the user directly. You seem to want the latter.
With monetarily free options available I don't think there's enough demand for a paid browser to actually fund it. By all means though if you thing it can happen, then feel free to start up such a project and see if it has wings.